St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-04
GOSSIP BOUT MEN.

Aid. Ed johnson laments the defeat of the
board OF public works bill and says it was
non partisan. Perhaps there is where the
mistake was made. Ii the bill had been Ia
beled "Republican Protective Measure" it
would have gone whooping through.
c. A. Pillsbury enjoys good music with the
best of them. 1t is seldom his face is seen
without smile, but the smile was absent at
the Patti concert when he darted several
chances at the small boys looking in from the
roof.
Gen. A. B. Nettletou squares himself hand
somely. Like brave general, he refused to
play while fighting was going on, and when
missed from Minneapolis he was down at St.
Paul fighting for the Crandall bill. His
myriads of admirers will now rest easier.
t. j. Ryan is being groomed very industri-
ously for alderman of the Ninth on the Dem
ocratic ticket. In the daily walks of life he is
u grocer.
Aid. Lawrence is said to be at work on the
effort of bis life, soon to be issued in pau
phlet form and entitled, "Purifying and
Purging the Eighth or Every Man His Own
Blind Pig
In this uncertain state of the weather, when
any influence might change to SD ring on the
one hand or back to winter on the other, the
momentary return OF Hon. j. B. Gilfllan is
regarded with considerable anxiety.
George Washington Mount Vernon Pitmau
is evidently loaded to the very muzzle with
information in relation to the fourth Judge
ship. According 10 him, Gov. McGill must
be species of plaDchette and he the oper-
ator.
There seems to be a general desire that
George w. Cooley be one of the Republican
members of the police commission. He is
deeply interested in the police department
and understands its necessities thoroughly.
Col. c. W. Johnson will soon be with US
again. If there is no extra session. and Hon.
Loren Fletcher will resume his position on
the anxious seat.
Ed Q. Giesamau writes that he will not be
alderman from the Third ward Being of the
Republican frame Of mind it is not at all
probable that he ever will be. Ed has con-
siderable good sense mixed up in his compo-
sitiou, and is generally credited with know
ing when he has had enough.
While Maj Will E. Haskell is in Europe,
securing the Alps clean and taking in all the
old masters. his associate editor Abbott
Blunt. will have charge OF the Minneapolis
Tribune. Mr.. Blunt is one of the bright
young men in Western journalism; he is one
of the same school as Mr.. Mitchell, of the
New York Sun, and Mr.. Brainerd, of the Phil
adephia News, and it would be hard to say
whether this estimate is the highest compli-
ment to Brainerd or to Mitchell or to Blunt.
The Minneapolis man has had severe training
by which we mean hard work and lot of it.
office and then jumped to Kan
sas City-thap which nothing could
be more like jumping from the frying-pan
into the fire, for it is notorious, we think, that
life in u Kansas City newspaper office is the
verest slaves life. When Alden j Blethen
invaded the Northwest and got his Briarian
hooks on Minneapolis journalism the first
man he sent for to 'come over and help him
was young Abbott Blunt. and since that time
while Maj Will E. Haskell, the nominal editor
of the Tribune, has been putting on the seal
Tops and the frillS, doing the '.we'' business
and QcknOw lp0UinU the rnpnint nj 10
kins and the cOrd-wood, Betheu and Blunt
have been saving the wood and building I'D
the substantial merits upon which the
Tribunes prosperity is based.-Chicago News.